Sorelle Friedler is the Shibulal Family Professor of Computer Science at Haverford College, a Nonresident Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution, and the Chair of ACM’s U.S. Technology Policy Committee. She previously served as the Assistant Director for Data and Democracy in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy under the Biden-Harris Administration where she co-authored the AI Bill of Rights and contributed to policy governing the federal use of AI. She is a Co-Founder of the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT).
Prof. Friedler’s research focuses on the societal impacts of AI, including the fairness and interpretability of machine learning, AI auditing, and AI policy. She has received grants from the NSF, DARPA, the Ford Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and others. Key papers include work on disparate impact in maching learning and on accelerating materials discovery with interpretable machine learning.
Before Haverford, Prof. Friedler was a software engineer at Alphabet (formerly Google), where she worked in the X lab and in search infrastructure. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a B.A. from Swarthmore College.